Psalm: 88 Meditation: Matthew – There are many similarities between Jesus and Moses that have been noted over the years. Both Jesus and Moses faced death from the moment they took their first breaths by order of the Pharaoh in Exodus and King Herod in the Gospels. Pharaoh’s decree was to decrease the Israelite population. …
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Going Deeper: September 13
Read Psalm 88 together. If you missed the sermon on Sunday, you can watch it here starting on Monday: pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall Listen. Psalm 88 is a prayer for someone whose faith in the God who saves is confronted by experiences that seem to indicate that God has abandoned them. What does Psalm 88 say to us …
Friday, August 7, 2020
Psalm: 88 Meditation This recounts Nathan’s bold rebuke of David. This was wonderfully courageous. If you’re going to call out your king about adultery and murder, you had best know our audience. David had the power of life and death over his subjects. We saw how he dispatched Uriah the Hittite the hapless husband of …
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Psalm: 136 Meditation 1 Samuel: Israel went out to fight against the Philistines and lost 4,000 men. They had carried the Ark of the Covenant to the front line and lost another 30,000 men. Why? Eli’s (the chief priest’s) sons Hophni and Phinehas were wicked. Samuel’s first encounter with the LORD was in a prophesy …
Friday, June 19, 2020
Psalm: 88 Meditation Acts: Peter had just dropped the proverbial bomb on the people’ on this first Pentecost morning, informing them that they were responsible for putting the “Lord and Christ” to death. Acts says the people were cut to the heart [more like terrorized]. Peter then told them how to save themselves “from this …
Saturday, April 11
Holy Saturday Psalms: 95, 88 Meditation Job: For a limited time, Job’s life was fraught with misery. In chapters 1-2 Job went from sublime prosperity and progeny (he had 10 adult children) and in the course of a day he lost it all. Job’s attitude? “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.” (1:21) …
Sunday, March 29
Psalm: 88 Meditation Mark: Peter’s rebuke to Jesus, it turns out, is in direct opposition to the Father’s will. Selfishly Peter may have meant well, but that would thwart the divine plan. As for Jesus’ followers, “taking up his cross” (v. 35) simply means that discipleship is not cheap – it may eventually call one …
